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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Aika. 
Eng. El. Holcus borealis. Schrad. II. odoratus. Linn. Willd. Don. 
MSS. Discovered by Mr. G. Don, in a narrow mountain valley called 
Kella, Angus-shire. P. July. E.)* 
AFRA.f Cal. two-valved; two-flowered ; without any inter¬ 
mediate rudiment. {Seed loose. Bloss. unchanged. E.) 
(1) Florets awnless . 
A. aquat'ica. Panicle expanding; florets without awns, smooth, 
longer than the calyx; leaves fiat; (stipula oblong. E.) 
Curt. — {E. Bot. 1557. E.)— Vaill. 17. 1— Floret, Mont. 60. 
{Stems floating, rising 12 to 18 inches above the water. Leaves strap-spear- 
shaped, flaccid. E.) Panicle four or five inches long, two to three inches 
broad when expanded; purplish, smooth, branched. {Anthers prominent, 
yellow. The flowers abound with honey. Sm. E.) 
Water Hair Grass. (Welsh: Brigwellt dyfrdrig. E.) In the margins 
of pools, rivers, and in ditches. P. May—July.j 
(Var. 1. Minor. Whole plant only from three to five inches high. This 
diminutive habit is occasioned by the plant being deprived of its requisite 
supply of water, when growing on dry land. 
North shore, Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. The same variety appears to have 
been communicated to Dr. Smith from Parkgate, Cheshire, by the Rev. 
T. Gisborne. E.) 
(2) Florets awned. 
A. ciESPiTo'sA. Leaves flat ; panicle expanding; petals villous and 
awned at the base; awn straight, short. 
{llort. Gram.—E. Bot. 1153. E.)— II. Ox. viii. 5. row 3. 17, and row 2.1— 
Leers 4. 8— Ger. 5. 1 and 9,— Ger. Em. 5 1 and 2— C. B. Th. 34. 2 and 35 
— Park. 1158. 2 and 3— Dod. 561. 1— J.B. ii. 461. 3— FI. Dan. 240— 
Scheuch. 5. 2 and 3. 
Sometimes trails on the ground to the length of several feet. Panicle of a 
beautiful purple silky appearance. Dickenson; six or eight inches high, 
or more, and half as broad. Awns the length of the blossom. {Anthers 
purple. One of the Forets sessile; the other on a short hairy stalk, 
which is more or less extended above the floret. In habit this and the 
next approach Arundo ; but in Arundo , the hairs surrounding the glumes 
are always more copious, and as long as the glumes. Sm. E.) 
Turfy Hair Grass. (Welsh: Brigwellt mawnog. E.) Moist meadows and 
woods. (Very frequent in Scotland. Mr.Knapp; where Messrs. Don observed 
var. vivipera ; on the seashore: glomerata ; branchlets clustered ; onClova 
* (Scent resembling lliat of Anthoxaiwn adoratvm. It is sold in Sweden to be suspended 
over beds, and is supposed to induce sleep. Mr. Sinclair observes that, though it is one 
of the earliest flowering grasses, and possessed of considerable nutritive property, the 
powerful creeping roots, its tender nature, and the great deficiency of foliage in the 
spring, are demerits which discourage the idea of recommending it to the agriculturist. E.) 
t (A ipa of Hippocrates and Theophrastus. E.) 
f (Water-fowl are very foud of the young sweet shoots, as also of the seeds; it 
may therefore be introduced into decoys and other places, (by throwing the plants into 
the water with a weight tied to them,) with good effect. Salisbury. E.) 
